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Ivan Castro
Education
Syracuse University
MSPH in Biostatistics
Syracuse, NY
2018
SUNY Oswego
BA in Psychology
Oswego, NY
2013
Experience
Research Coordinator
VISN 2 Center for Integrated Healthcare
Syracuse, NY
2018 - present
- Manage an NIH R34 (treatment development) grant
- Coordinate behavioral clinical trial
- Write data analysis pipelines
- Write reproducible workflows for processing monthly recruitment data across multiple projects
- Create ad hoc data wrangling solutions for national program evaluation
Project Manager
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
2015 - 2019
- Managed NSF-funded training program in trauma research (Grant No. 1559793)
- Assisted in the design of social science research studies
- Created cloud-based data collection surveys
- Responsible for data management
Research Assistant
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
2016 - 2018
- Graduate RA in the Dept. of Public Health
- Actively involved in several public health research studies:
- Syracuse Lead Study
- Vacationing and Health
- College Football Injuries
- Conducted statistical analysis in R and SPSS
- Conducted spatial analysis in R and ArcGIS
- Wrote analysis pipelines for modelling environmental exposures to toxicants.
- Created research databases (MS Access)
- Conducted semi-structured interviews
- Wrote research reports
Publications
Variability in the spatial density of vacant properties contributes to background lead (Pb) exposure in children.
Environmental Research, 170, 463-471.
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2019
Castro, I. E., Larsen, D. A., Hruska, B., Parson, P. J., Palmer, C. D., and Gump, B. B.
Presentations
Psychological flexibility moderates the link between combat exposure and hopelessness in military veterans.
ResilienceCon
Nashville, TN
2018
Dykas, M. J., Castro, I. E., Wolford, K., & Gump, B. B.
Close Relationships among service-members moderate the link between combat and PTSD symptomatology.
Psychological Association Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
2018
Castro, I. E.and Dykas, M. J.